Hello all. I have a question for all you Windows 2000 Bat users. Well, to be honest, it's Windows XP I'm using (Beta2) but it uses NTFS as well, so this problem is probably applicable to W2K too. The problem is really weird. I can't replicate exactly when and why it happens. But it seems that for the three accounts that I have set up to check mail automatically every minute, every so often the account.cfg file for that account gets... not wiped, but like DOUBLED. There is no "diff" util in windows that I know of, but just judging from the file size it looks like it gets doubled. Plus, it isn't text so I can't just view it to see what's going on inside. But basically I have ~4KB cfg files for my accounts, and every so often it goes to 8KB! The problem there is that the file is obviously corrupted, because the Bat (if i go to account properties) no longer has ANY information about the account, my name, from address, SMTP auth information, templates, nothing! I have basically made backups of each cfg file so that when that happens for an account, I just quit the bat, copy the backup file over ACCOUNT.CFG (rather, delete ACCOUNT.CFG and rename a copy of the backup), then restart the bat. And everything's fine. It is not bits of information appearing, it's everything. I have my Mail directories on drive F: under the MAIL dir. I have permission to write to it, etc... I have also unchecked the boxes for fast indexing and so forth under WinXP, thinking maybe that was doing something. But I suspect it is something to do with how the bat reads and writes files under NTFS. Does anyone have a clue about this? I would really appreciate it if you sent a cc or bcc to this email address as well as the list, because I get the list in digest format and it's hard for me to sort through it sometimes. Thanks. Heheh, I just tried to send this but couldn't, The Bat says I cannot leave the from field blank. Guess what? My account.cfg for this account was eaten again, I had to save in outbox (providing a manual from field), quit, copy my backup over, and restart. This time the corrupted .CFG file was actually smaller than the good one (3KB or so). Please help! Thanks in advance, a very concerned Bat user who doesn't want to give up the Bat in Windows 2000/XP -- ______________________________________________________ Archives : <http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com> Moderators : <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> TBTech List: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You are subscribed as : archive@jab.org
